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Author Jal, Murzban

Title The Imbecile's Guide to Public Philosophy
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (255 p.)
Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Philosophy in the era of Global Evil -- Notes -- Introduction: Why public philosophy? Why now? -- Notes -- 1. Imbecility and its discontents -- Introduction: the crisis of Kultur -- Fascism as ""private philosophy -- The Jew and the Aryan. Hannah Arendt and Heidegger -- What is to be done? Fascism and the denial of the liberal promise -- The reification of the public -- On the metamorphosis of reason -- Auschwitz and the necessity of philosophy
Liberalism and the problematic of alienation -- The advertisement industry as the rule of the New Normal -- Revolutionary philosophy as the act of ecstatic rebellion -- Notes -- 2. Public philosophy as critique -- Philosophy for the public -- Philosophy of matters public -- Critique and philosophy of matters public -- Critique as parrhesia -- Parrhesia: democracy, resistance, and contingency -- Critique and context -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. What could be called the philosophical ""other""? -- The other traditions -- The enlightenment hegemony -- Heidegger and the task of philosophy -- Notes
4. Redistribution, recognition, and participation-Nancy Fraser's theory of justice in Indian social context: An exploration -- Notes -- 5. Contestations that refuse to die: The battle for language as a primary marker of identity -- Literature in modern Indian languages -- Language, knowledge, and identity -- The manipulations of the elite -- Public philosophy and mother tongue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Schooling: The invisible paradigm -- Introduction -- Its dialectical nature -- Idea of deschooling -- Ideological State Apparatus -- Reinforcing inequalities -- Hegemonize knowledge
Segregate the ""others -- Subjugating the mind -- Summing up -- Notes -- 7. De-colonizing solidarity and reciprocity -- Solidarity in relation to reciprocity: some philosophical quandaries considered -- Ambiguity: insights for a phenomenology of agency -- Rethinking reciprocity through ambiguity: a new philosophical perspective on solidarity -- Notes -- 8. Understanding the ""other"": A case of Kolkata Marwaris -- The city -- Location and identity formation -- Marwaris in Kolkata -- Notes -- 9. Public-private boundary: Conceptual debates on privacy -- Liberalism and privacy
Conceptions of privacy -- Value of privacy -- Feminism and privacy -- Notes -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Bawane, Jyoti
Ali, Muzaffar
ISBN 9781000440386
1000440389